There's money in viral videos, and News Corp wants a piece. The media giant announced on Friday that it had acquired Storyful, a media startup that finds and verifies content posted to social media. Billing itself as "the world's first social news ag...

News Corp., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and other newspapers around the world, plans to create a private exchange for selling ad space on its websites, breaking ties with third-party networks. The service, which will debut...

On the heels of Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, Hulu is suddenly snapping up bids left and right. According to The Los Angeles Times and Reuters, both the Chernin Group, in partnership with Providence Equity, as well as Guggenheim Digital...

The U.S. government’s price-fixing lawsuit against Apple goes to trial next month in New York. Ahead of its court date, the U.S. released emails that purport to show Apple was the “ringleader” in a scheme to set artificially high ebook prices with so...

If Fox doesn't prevail in court vs. startup Aereo, News Corp. will consider making Fox content subscription-only, an exec from the company said on Monday. News Corp. President and COO Chase Carey (pictured) made his remarks offstage during the NAB Sh...

It seems that Hulu has been unable to find a permanent chief executive in the two-and-a-half months since CEO Jason Kilar announced his plans to leave the video-streaming company. Andy Forssell, Hulu's senior vice president of content, has been named...

What's going to happen to Hulu? Since founding chief executive officer, Jason Kilar, and chief technology officer, Rich Tom, announced in early January their plans to step down in the first quarter of this year, neither Hulu's current leadership nor ...

The Daily published its last edition Friday, and remaining staffers put together a music video to say -- or, rather, sing -- goodbye to the tune of "So Long, Farewell." The video primarily features The Daily's younger staffers, but Editor-in-Chief Je...

News Corp. is shutting down The Daily, its ambitious daily newspaper for the tablet market, after two years. "As part of a digital restructuring initiative, the company will cease standalone publication of The Daily iPad app on December 15, 2012, tho...

Hulu CEO Jason Kilar may be leaving the company as early as September, according to a leaked memo dated in July. The memo, which was obtained by Variety, outlines the company's future plans in three pages of bullet points. The top of these reads, "Ou...

The Daily, the tablet-only news publication News Corp. first launched on the iPad a year and a half ago, is letting go nearly a third of its staff, a spokesperson has confirmed. Approximately 50 of its 170-person staff will be laid off. Those staffed...

When The Daily debuted on the iPad, many felt it would change the way we read the news each morning. But News Corp's tablet-only publication could soon be headed to the history books, according to the New York Observer. Just 18 months after its Febru...

Yielding to calls by shareholders, News Corp. announced Thursday that it will spin off its newspaper-dominated publishing unit into a separate company. The plan comes after the company's board, chaired by Rupert Murdoch, met Wednesday night to discus...

The Daily, a News Corp.-owned daily news publication that launched exclusively on the iPad 15 months ago, is continuing to expand to new platforms with the launch of an iPhone edition Thursday. The app is relatively basic, lacking the creative design...

After nearly a full year as an iPad-exclusive publication, The Daily is now arriving on some Android tablet devices. The News Corp.-owned publication has teamed up with Verizon Wireless to develop the first Android version of the newspaper app, which...

On Tuesday morning, the world learned that the account bearing media mogul Rupert Murdoch's wife's name, Wendi Deng Murdoch, is not run by her or anyone connected to her. And less than two hours after the revelation, Twitter admitted in a tweet that ...

We've all been there: You tweet something and then you delete it because you made a typo, included the wrong link or simply just had a change of heart regarding your comment. News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, who joined Twitter on New...

Hulu and its owners have announced that they will not sell the popular video site after all. "Since Hulu holds a unique and compelling strategic value to each of its owners, we have terminated the sale process and look forward to working together to ...

News International, the UK division of News Corp, is expected to pay 3 million pounds ($4.7 million) to settle phone hacking claims made by the family of 13-year-old murder victim Milly Dowler, according to Reuters. Evidence suggests that Dowler's ph...

Alec Baldwin, star of 30 Rock, took to his Twitter account hours before the opening of The Emmy Awards to let fans know that FOX had removed a joke he made about the News Corp phone hacking scandal from the show’s opening sketch. Baldwin tweeted that...

Hulu is plotting an international expansion, starting with a move into its first foreign market -- Japan -- later this year. "In Japan, we also see an unfulfilled market need with respect to premium feature film and TV content and very favorable envi...

The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed Monday morning defending its integrity amidst allegations that employees of sister publication News of the World bribed UK police and hacked the voicemails of dozens of high-profile individuals. The article ...

The U.S. Department of Justice is preparing to issue subpoenas to media empire News Corp as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations that the company's employees bribed UK police and hacked the voicemails of September 11 victims, among other...

Apple could be considering a purchase of popular online video service Hulu, according to "two people who weren't authorized to speak publicly." The two sources spoke with Bloomberg, calling the negotiations "early talks that may lead to an offer for ...

With Rebekah Brooks and Rebecca Black both in the news earlier this week, someone had to figure out a way to mash up the two. Now, somebody has. A heavily auto-tuned singer performs the new lyrics, which are adapted to the former News of the World ed...

It was the splat heard around the world and Twitter offered an instant reaction. Celebs like Roger Ebert, Simon Pegg and Seth Meyers weighed in on the Rupert Murdoch pie-attack incident, as did the alleged pie thrower himself, Jonnie Marbles. The has...

The testimony of Rupert and James Murdoch before the UK Parliament about the ongoing phone hacking scandal was temporarily suspended following an attack on the elder Murdoch. Photos and videos capturing the moment are now circulating, showing what ap...

Members of the UK Parliament are currently questioning Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch about News International's phone hacking scandal. "We felt ashamed at what had happened," Rupert Murdoch said when asked why he chose to close News of the...

Welcome to this morning's edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today. Apple May Launch New MacBook Air & Mac OS ...

Current News Corp. COO Chase Carey may be the company's next CEO, following the long reign of media mogul and News Corp. founder, chairman, and current CEO Rupert Murdoch. Both the titan himself and the media company have been somewhat beleaguered of...

A former News of the World reporter who connected former NOTW editor Andy Coulson to phone hacking by his staff has been found dead. The Guardian reports that Sean Hoare, who worked as NOTW's showbiz reporter before being dismissed for substance abus...

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